Data Science Summer School students take a fresh look at the world’s largest rapid transit system
| Jake Hofman
This month marked the 5th anniversary of the Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School (DS3). DS3 is an intensive, eight-week hands-on introduction to data science for college students in the New York City area committed to increasing diversity in computer…
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What This Local Man Is Doing About SIDS
Heather and John Kahan could have been forever crushed when their son Aaron Matthew, seeming to have been born healthy, died soon after birth. Kahan has turned his family’s profound heartbreak into an opportunity to advance medicine, science and technology…
Awards | IEEE VIS 2018
Bongshin Lee, Roland Fernandez receive IEEE VIS 2018 Test of Time Award
George Robertson, Danyel Fisher, Bongshin Lee, John Stasko, and Roland Fernandez received the 2018 Test of Time Award from the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) conference for their 2008 paper, Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization. This award identifies the paper that…
10 years is an eternity in the tech world, but we are just getting started
| Victor Bahl
I vividly remember October 29, 2008. I had invited colleagues from academia and industry to Building 99, home of Microsoft Research, for a daylong meeting to discuss the future of mobile and cloud computing. My friends flew to Redmond, Washington,…
The poet in the machine: Auto-generation of poetry directly from images through multi-adversarial training – and a little inspiration
As the means of expressing thoughts and feelings too sublime and elusive to be conveyed in everyday language, poetry across all cultures occupies a most sophisticated and mysterious of realms, just beyond the outskirts of creativity. Along the language-based avenues…
Designing the future with the help of the past with Bill Buxton
Episode 46, October 17, 2018 - In a wide-ranging interview, Bill Buxton explains why Marcel Proust and TS Eliot can be instructive for computer scientists, why the long nose of innovation is essential to success in technology design, why problem-setting…